EU clears the way for the “curvy cucumber” and ‘wonky” fruits
November 13, 2008
Thanks to the EU, the curvy cucumber and its likes will find their place on supermarket shelves. European Union nations have given a green signal for bent cucumbers and “Wonky” vegetables, fruits allowed to be sold in supermarkets and elsewhere.
European Commission spokesman Michael Mann said:
“This is a happy day indeed for the curvy cucumber and knobbly carrot, and other amusingly shaped fruits and vegetables.”
The commission said in a statement:
“Rules governing the size and shape of fruits and vegetables will be consigned to the history. In a move to prevent dumping of food, a process has been initiated to help cut red tape and stop food dumping. According to Mann, the decision would rid of 100 pages of EU legislation at a stroke.”
It was for a long period of twenty years, due to, European standards, only the most standard- looking produce reached supermarket shelves. In all, scrapping of marketing standard for 26 fruits and vegetables, results in paving way for the return to shopping trolleys of some of the deviant vegetables like forked carrots, onions that are less than two thirds covered with skin and the bent cucumbers.
The rules were considered as “bonkers” by the likes of major British supermarket chain Sainsbury’s, and at the same time major agricultural nation like France are not in favour of the changes in the rule as they argue that scrapping the curbs will lead to a fall in prices and there by hit farmers.
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